Questions for David Aroner

1) Is it true that on November 1, 2000, you were hired as a Special Consultant for Research for the Division of Labor Statistics and Research (DLSR) for a nine month period?

2) Was your hiring as a consultant the result of a test or bidding process?

3) What is your background in research? Which companies or public entities have you worked for in your capacity as Researcher?

4) How many years of research experience do you have?

5) What research have you worked on or published in you career

6) During your nine-month appointment as Research Consultant for DLSR, what research did you direct? What research did you do or involved in personally?

7) Do you consider your appointment in the position of Chief of DLSR, right after the expiration of your nine-month tenure as a consultant for DLSR, appropriate? Do you think that, under these circumstances, your appointment as Chief of DLSR is not in violation of the statutes?

8) Is it true that during your almost two year tenure at DLSR, both as a consultant and as a Chief, you haven’t spoken even once to most of the roughly forty employees of that Division?

9) Is it true that your daily presence at DLSR averages about two to three hours?

10) Is it true that you have been excessively absent from the Division? Is it true that you have been absent on a weekly basis?

11) Is it true that, besides a recent six-week medical leave, you have also taken the following vacation time off: a) More recently, a two-week vacation? b) Prior to that a six-week vacation? c) Another two-week vacation even earlier?

12) In the almost two years you have been with DLSR, what has been accomplished at that Division as a result of your own personal efforts?

13) Is it true that DLSR contracted out without a bid to Mr. Don Villarejo for $25,000?

14) Is it true that Mr. Villarejo is an acquaintance of yours?

Mr. Aroner, we will like to get your answers so we can publish your answers in What Now?!

Sincerely yours,

Yaya Fanusie, Ph.D., Publisher

(510) 465-6739
P.O. Box 3823
Oakland, CA 94609